This is both my personal learning project and my contribution in the struggle to confront the ongoing Republican/ libertarian assault on rational science and constructive learning, as manifested in their malicious strategic Attacks on Science ~ A collection of articles, scientific resources, plus my own essays and indepth critique of various presentations from unidirectional-skeptics ~ Hopefully a resource for the busy, yet discerning, student who's concerned about the health of our Earth

Massive counterclaims, in excess of $10 million, have just been filed against climate scientist Michael Mann after lawyers affirmed that the former golden boy of global warming alarmism had sensationally failed in his exasperating three-year bid to sue skeptic Canadian climatologist, Tim Ball. Door now wide open for criminal investigation into Climategate conspiracy. ...

Hmmm, no case number, nor court filing named…

{ OK, turns out it's another of the endless motions lawyers file: "Defendant Steyn's Answer and Counterclaims to Amended Complaint"and it's part of the ongoing lawsuit that Dr. Mann initiated against Mark Steyn, Rand Simberg and the Competitive Enterprise Institute, made in reaction to the court's last decision which went against Steyn et al.The motion is an incredible exercise in Chutzpah, you can see the text here:

Former high school art teacher John O'Sullivan was acquitted after his step-daughter testified she had sent the obscene messages -- testimony that the judge said he did not find entirely credible. O'Sullivan then published an ...

John O'Sullivan: "Hansen, Sagan and Venus with magellan probe" > Examining The Art Of Deception. This is an extension of a discussion of sorts over at SkepticSocietyForum. and though I don't have the time to do it justice,.

John O'Sullivan, master manipulator - A Closer Look. Brendan Demelle and Richard Littlemore at DesmogBlog.com have revealed more information regarding the serial liar John O'Sullivan. The following is a repost of their ...

British legal analyst and science writer, John O'Sullivan pursued a vision to form a large body of experts united in opposing the worst excesses of government-funded science. .. From the outset PSI was driven by retired Dutch ...

John Cook lists "The 5 Characteristics of Scientific Denialism. This article from SkepticalScience.com is worth adding as an addendum to my previous post - A review of John O'Sullivan's article:"Hansen, Sagan and Venus with ...

John O'Sullivan is a principle founder and pusher of "Principia Scientific International" a group of AGW deniers intent on spreading misinformation and furthering the echo-chamber's crazy-making regarding the scientific ...

I also wonder if you or any of your readers can update me on the status of the Mann v Ball defamation case in BC. Apart from John O'Sullivan making wild claims that Mann is about to lose I have seen nothing credible about it.

To supplement my previous post, here's a list of investigations into Dr. Mann and allegations stemming from the break in and hacking of the University of East Anglia's Climate Research Unit, courtesy of SkepticalScience.com.

Well, the climate science "skeptics" have unleashed another flurry substance-less claims and attacks on Dr. Michael Mann in light of the recent court decision allowing the American Tradition Institute's (and a member of ...

The case where Dr. Mann finally said, enough is enough. And decided that the malicious slander the Competitive Enterprise Institute fabricated and that the National Review gave top billing to, in their ongoing campaign to ...

Today, the case of Dr. Michael E. Mann vs. The National Review and The Competitive Enterprise Institute was filed in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia. Dr. Mann, a Professor and Director of the Earth System ...

John O'Sullivan is a principle founder and pusher of "Principia Scientific International" a group of AGW deniers intent on spreading misinformation and furthering the echo-chamber's crazy-making regarding the scientific ...

It relates to Dr. Mann's lawsuit against author Mark Steyn, the National Review and Competitive Enterprise Institute for claiming he's guilty of scientific fraud. In response to another ruling in the plaintiff's favor, one Ben ...

In a post over at [The Policy and Commentary Blog of the Heartland Institute] Peter Guest's blog, Michael “Hockey Stick” Mann is quoted making one of the most remarkable statements that I've ever heard coming out of a ...

This recent spate of libelous slander against the dedicated scientist Dr. Michael Mann and the results of his work has taken a disgusting bizarre twist as the Denier Echo-chamber reaches new lows {as mentioned in my ...

From Dr. Mann's Twitter feed: Watts continues: A simple “no” would suffice, but Dr. Mann seems determined to denigrate people that have different views than him such as Dr. Spencer's Christian faith. How unprofessional.

{Incidentally, Professor Mann was at the inaugural Geophysical Statistics Project Workshop in Boulder, when he was a graduate student, so to claim he isn't concerned about statistical accuracy is groundless character ...

Suffice it to say the attacks against Michael Mann have reached new depths of sleaze in their desperate attempts to deny what Earth Observation evidence is showing us. Namely, that Michael Mann's pioneering paleoclimate ...

As usual Anthony misrepresents and tries to spin Dr. Michael Mann's refusal to play. When that didn't raise enough hackles, Anthony dragged a Christian climate scientist into his pit. Why ? Because she didn't jump to ...

Discovered and revealed! - Where the climate codes and data have been hiding. While compiling my previous post I came across this interesting list. I know that a lot of folks have been talked into believing that climatologists are hiding data - I think a review of the following list makes clear that such talk is political dirty tricks - and not a reflection of reality or the situation within the climate .... Time series analysis (MTM-SVD, SSA-MTM toolkit, Mann and Lees (1996)).

Mind you "Mr. Hockey Stick", that is Dr. Mann, is one of the authors at RC. I bring this up because in America when we charge someone with misdeeds or crimes - we allow, and in fact, expect them to respond to incriminating ...

The experiments compare results based on the global multiproxy dataset used by Mann and coworkers, with results obtained using the extratropical Northern Hemisphere (NH) maximum latewood tree-ring density set used by ...

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I want to share a comment from over at WottsUpWithThatand encourage you to offer some financial support to defend the right of scientists to do their work free of malicious campaigns that are dependent on lies and dirty tricks dedicated to misrepresenting and silence their science.

B.D. writes: "I’ve also decided to contribute to the Climate Science Legal Defense Fund by buying a nice t-shirt for $50. If you want, you can get the shirt for $30. Some comments about this affair don’t seem to understand the difference between critiquing a scientific conclusion and accusing a scientist of fraud. I guess that is what happens when people are too lazy or incompetent to understand a scientific article. I relish a good scientific controversy (especially in peer-reviewed literature) but fraud is both rare and scary in science."

Turns out it's another of the endless motions lawyers file - And John O made it sound like so much more.

"Defendant Steyn's Answer and Counterclaims to Amended Complaint" and it's part of the ongoing lawsuit that Dr. Mann initiated against Mark Steyn, Rand Simberg and the Competitive Enterprise Institute, made in reaction to the court's last decision which went against Steyn et al.

The motion's wording is an incredible exercise in Chutzpah. The careful reader will find much sick humor in it.

Now badhatharry, can you explain why you think it's OK to maliciously lie about a serious scientist and his work?

Trying to understand this manmade global warming experiment, humanity is running at full throttle, requires a good-faith learning process on everyone's part - but we get players like CEI and pals who have no constructive scientific contribution. Their intent is purely to stop anything that might interfere with their economic/political goals, regardless of the long term consequences.

Unfortunately, one of those goals includes the insane faith that endlessly increasing consumption is possible.

Another insane tenet of the right-wing dogma is that even though we now have over seven billion people on this planet - they believe nothing has changed and they can pretend it's still a wide open cornucopia out there on our planet.

Oh and since I'm on a roll, that mentality of maximizing profits and minimizing expenditures while disregarding "externalities" is another short-sighted self-destructive practice.

So sad, so insanely destructive to our children's future. But, you wouldn't care about tomorrow's world would you badhatharry? Corrective me if I'm wrong.

"25. Denies the allegations in Paragraph Twenty-Five of the Amended Complaint, except admits that there was an investigation by former FBI Director Freeh concluding that Penn State and its highest officers had helped cover up the serial child rape perpetrated by Dr Mann’s colleague Jerry Sandusky."

A guy who spent his professional career playing ball games with big boys and hanging out in locker rooms - is no colleague of any serious scientists !

I see that you have picked up on that latest piece of nonsense regarding Dr. Michael Mann coming from John O'Sullivan's PSI blog. It relates to the Mann v Ball defamation case going through the Supreme Court of British Columbia. You may recall that Dr. Tim Ball was a founding member of the PSI blogging group and was its "Chairman" from 2010 until March 2013, at which time John O'Sullivan registered PSI Acumen Ltd. as a private company in the UK (http://globalpoliticalshenanigans.blogspot.co.uk/2013/07/spotlighton-psi-acumen-ltd.html) and declared PSI to be a "subsidiary". Initially John O’Sullivan had the audacity to declare on his PSI Acumen Ltd. “about” page that his group of PSI bloggers were EMPLOYEES of his company but dropped that misleading claim pretty quickly. Maybe he had had a few strongly-worded complaints from some of those “100’s of paid-up members” that back in Dec 2010/Jan 2011 he asked his founding members to help recruit.

Returning to PSI v Mann, on 21st Feb. 2014 John O'Sullivan posted another ludicrous article on his PSI blog, this one claiming that “MICHAEL MANN FACES BANKRUPTCY AS HIS COURTROOM CLIMATE CAPERS COLLAPSE” - a piece of pure fantasy based upon Mark Stein's counter-claim against Mann. You can find more about that in my "work-in-progress" article "SpotlightON - Michael Mann v Tim Ball et al." (http://globalpoliticalshenanigans.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/spotlighton-michael-mann-v-tim-ball-et.html).

It appears that there are only two John O'Sullivans relevant to this thread1) - the respected OBE who was editor of National Review and2) - the out-of-work high-school art teacher who claimed that his articles have featured in National Review and that he was a lawyer/litigator/legal analyst/legal consultant/Member of the ABA and persists in his specious claim to membership[ of the New York County Lawyers Association (your "ersatz Irish barrister"?).

The one-time high-school teacher was acquitted in March 2004 of assault and other charges involving a teenaged schoolgirl and wrote "VANILLA GIRL: A FACT-BASED CRIME STORY OF A TEACHER'S STRUGGLE TO CONTROL HIS EROTIC OBSESSION WITH A SCHOOLGIRL (http://cupboard55vanillagirl.blogspot.co.uk/).

You may find of interest the article "So Many Lies and the Liar Who Tells Them" by New Zealand fruit farmer and blogger Gareth Renowden, a staunch supporter of the CACC hypothesis, who commented " .. 'Sky Dragon' John O’Sullivan has never had any article, major or otherwise, published in National Review or Forbes. National Review does have a writer called John O’Sullivan — a prominent and respectable British conservative columnist who acts as their Editor-at-Large. Pressed to confirm his status as a writer for National Review, Sky Dragon O’Sullivan posted links to two articles written by the other John. Tasked with this apparent theft of another’s reputation, he resorted to bluster and attempts to change the subject .. For O’Sullivan, “featuring” in China Daily means having someone post one of your articles in a discussion forum. The same is true for The India Times .. " (http://hot-topic.co.nz/so-many-lies-and-the-liar-who-tells-them/).

Pete, hope you don't mind, I deleted the duplicates and only posted the last one.

I'm thinking it would be cool if folks were more interested in understanding our physical planet and its Global Heat and Moisture Distribution Engineand what's happening before our eyes. Consider the state of our climate,rather than all this wasted time and energy on distracting bull shit and pathetic malicious vandals.

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11/29/2016 I started this blog to debate climate science contrarians, I've done my part, they, the intellectual cowards for their part have run off and hide within their hermetically sealed echo chambers, safe to continue broadcasting more stupidity mixed with anger and hostility rather than constructive learning.

Now this horrendous election. Its changed everything and this blog, not sure where it's going, eventually I need to start another one, one less intent on futility reaching out for what ain't there and more focused on presenting a different perspective for its own sake, and to hell with the rest of it, it's too heart breaking.

I see Dec 19th as a key date. If there isn't serious focused engagement of the public in numbers that surprise everyone, well the oligarch will have their way with us.

Americans need to let Trump know from the gitgo, we do not approve of his con job and he better not get too crazy because he's earned zero good faith or honeymoon considerations. We shall see.

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I know there are too many typos, what can I say, eyes aren't what they were, I get rushed, and always did have a thing with transposing…{well, I also hated high school "english" classes... bad call that one.}. Doing the best I can with what I got. Embarrassing though it is, it's better than doing nothing. Besides, it's the issues and reasoning that we should be worrying about.

Though I'm in my own little world here, I'm also constantly learning and evolving and do get occasional feedback and when I reread stuff and find errors or omissions or garbage, I fix it. If it's major I'll acknowledge it with an 'edited' note, minor stuff I don't bother.

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I hardly keep track of Anthony's latest antics (besides, with Sou on the job why bother - can't beat her insights). It's just me over here and I have more important things to do with my precious hours - still now that Anthony's luster has been wearing thin he's put his energy into discovering and honing new fresh faces to carry on the public show of the Republican/Libertarian strategic attack on science.

He seems to have transitioned into a ring-leader, perhaps mentor/coach would be better, producer? At least that's how Mr. Steele and his antics of the past year has gotten me to think about it. So in that regard this blog remains about WUWT's brand of thinking and logic and my struggle to understand the anatomy of the fraud they've perpetrated against mankind. {December 2014}

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ok, now some recommended websites:

This blog was started in April 2013 and is written by an actual scientist so it has a refreshingly serious objective air to it, plus he does a good clear job of explaining complex issues.

Tamino, an acknowledged statistical/mathematical expert of the highest order, at Open Mind also does an excellent job of holding Anthony’s feet to the fire with clearly explained facts and math. Check it out:http://tamino.wordpress.com~ ~ ~

And of course, there is the excellent, most up to date internet depository of climate studies and information for the non-expert public.

Then there's RealClimate.org the scientist's commentary site. Run by working climate scientists intended to help the interested public and journalists sort through the complexities of the climatology. They provide "quick response to developing stories and provide the context" that is too often missing from public media's depiction. {But, you better be serious and have some real science education/understanding under your belt if you want to keep up.}

I remember back in da day, good websites/blogs were few and far between. But over the past years that's been changing to the point that it's impossible to keep up with them all. Here's an incomplete, and long overdue addition to my above list: